wolf

Greek Noun Male

λύκος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX for זְאֵב;] a wolf: Mat.10:16, Luk.10:3, Jhn.10:12; figuratively (as Eze.22:27, Zep.3:3, Jer.5:6, al.), Mat.7:1, Act.20:29. (AS)

wolf

Greek Noun Male

λύκος [ῠ], ὁ, wolf, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολιός grisly,[Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀρέστεροι[Refs 8th c.BC+]; the small Egyptian wolves mentioned by [Refs 5th c.BC+] were perhaps jackals: various kinds distinguished by [Refs 3rd c.AD+] to see a wolf, i. e. to be struck dumb, as was vulgarly believed of any one at whom a wolf got the first look [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύκου πτερά, of things that are not, 'pigeon's milk', [Refs]; ὡς λ. χανών, of vain expectation, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρίν κεν λ. οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ, of an impossibility, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὡς λύκοι ἄρν᾽ ἀγαπῶσιν, of treacherous or unnatural love, poetical cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύκου βίον ζῆν, i. e. live by rapine, Prov. cited in [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐκ λύκου στόματος, of getting a thing praeter spem, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τῶν ὤτων ἔχειν τὸν λύκον 'catch a Tartar', [Refs 4th c.BC+]; λ. ἀετὸν φεύγει, of the inescapable, [Refs 4th c.AD+] II) a kind of daw, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare λύκιος. III) a fish, ={καλλιώνυμος}, [Refs 1st c.BC+] IV) a kind of spider, [Refs 4th c.BC+] V) anything shaped like a hook: V.1) a jagged bit for hard-mouthed horses, Latin lupus, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; compare λυκοσπάς. V.2) hook or knocker on a door, [Refs 5th c.AD+] V.3) flesh-hook, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] VI) nickname of παιδερασταί, [Refs 5th c.BC+] VII) the flower of the iris, Philin. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+] VIII) a kind of noose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] IX) a pastille used in dysentery, [Refs 6th c.AD+] X) ={ὀροβάγχη}, variant in marginal of [Refs 1st c.AD+] XI) an engine of war for defending gates, [Refs 6th c.AD+]. (Cf. Sanskrit vŕ[null]kas, Lithuanian vi[ltilde]kas, Slavonic vl[ucaron]k[ucaron], Gothic wulfs.)

Greek

Noun Masculine

a wolf; wolf; perhaps akin to the base of g3022 (λευκός) (from the whitish hair)